Housing

Housing mismatch sparks Great Housing Divide

Australia is creating a Great Housing Divide with small households living in larger dwellings, while thousands struggle to find a home. The stark mismatch between the
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Townsville, Queensland, Australia. | Newsreel

Queensland’s regions lure more capital city movers

Regional Queensland is growing in popularity for Australians leaving state capitals to escape city rat races. The latest Regional Mover Index (RMI) found, across the
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Former New South Wales Police Commissioner Mick Fuller. | Newsreel

Fuller new Director of Forensic Science Queensland

Former New South Wales Police Commissioner Mick Fuller is the new Director of Forensic Science Queensland (FSQ), following his recent work on the State’s DNA
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Sweet lure of caffeine replaces the fizz for Aussies

Fewer Australians are drinking soft drinks than a decade ago, but we’ve upped our coffee intake by almost 20 percent. New data released today by the Australian Bureau
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Spreading a message that violence is never OK

Ipswich teenagers will be the next to hear an anti-violence message as a foundation, forged from grief, expands into Queensland. The Pat Cronin Foundation, started in
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Brent Hill

Brent Hill named Brisbane 2032 Chief Marketing Officer

The task of promoting the Brisbane 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games will be the responsibility of the former CEO of Tourism Fiji. Brisbane 2032 CEO Cindy Hook said
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Grandmother and baby. | Newsreel

You now have less chance of an 100th birthday party

The increase of life expectancy in humans has slowed, with a time when the average age is 100 slipping further into the future. A new study compared the life
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Children collection water. | Newsreel

One in four still lack safe drinking water

More than 2 billion people, one in four of the world’s population, lack access to safe drinking water. A new World Health Organization (WHO)-UNICEF report,
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The risks of AI chatbots in a lonely world

By Daniel You, Micah Boerma and Yuen Siew Koo Within two days of launching its AI companions last month, Elon Musk’s xAI chatbot app Grok became the most popular app
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Salamanca Markets, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. | Newsreel

Hobart welcomes back its oldest capital city status

Hobart has replaced Adelaide as the oldest capital city in Australia. New Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) data showed, in 2024, the Tasmanian capital’s media age
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